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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Short History of the London Rifle Brigade + +Author: Unknown + +Release Date: June 29, 2008 [EBook #25932] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LONDON RIFLE BRIGADE *** + + + + +Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Internet Archive: Canadian +Libraries, Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net and the booksmiths at +http://www.eBookForge.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 360px;"> +<img src="images/gs01.jpg" width="360" height="500" alt="Lt.-Col. N. C. King, T.D., Lt.-Col. G. R. Tod, Lt.-Col. A. S. Bates" title="Lt.-Col. N. C. King, T.D., Lt.-Col. G. R. Tod, Lt.-Col. A. S. Bates" /> +<br /><small>Photo: <i>Underwood & Underwood.</i></small><br /></div> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" summary="Caption"> +<tr><td align='center' valign='top'><span class="smcap"><a href="images/i-01.jpg">Lt.-Col. N. C. King, T.D.</a></span>,<br />Comdg. 3rd Battn.</td><td align='center' valign='top'><span class="smcap">Lt.-Col. G. R. Tod</span>,<br />Comdg. 2nd Battn.</td><td align='center'><span class="smcap">Lt.-Col. A. S. Bates</span>,<br />D.S.O.,<br />Comdg. 1st Battn.</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_i" id="Page_i"></a><a href="images/x-1.png">[i]</a></span></p> +<h1>SHORT HISTORY</h1> + +<h2>OF THE</h2> + +<h1>LONDON RIFLE BRIGADE</h1> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3><i>Compiled Regimentally</i></h3> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class='center'><br /><br /><br /> +<small>ALDERSHOT:</small><br /> +<small><span class="smcap">Printed by Gale & Polden Ltd.</span>,</small><br /> +<small><span class="smcap">Wellington Works.</span></small><br /> +——<br /> +<small>1916.</small> +</div> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_ii" id="Page_ii"></a><a href="images/x-2.png">[ii]</a></span></p> +<h2>NOTE</h2> + + +<p>Pending the full pre-war history, which is to be +written by better hands, the very sketchy outline in +Part I. is given in order to form the connecting link +between the Regiment in peace, since its formation, +and the present time.</p> + +<p>It does not attempt to give the smallest idea of the +hard work, often accomplished under disadvantageous +circumstances, carried out by all ranks, which made +possible the work done in the war.</p> + +<p>That the Regiment even now exists is solely due +to Lieut.-Colonel Lord Bingham (now Brigadier-General +the Earl of Lucan), whose cheery optimism +through the dark times previous to the birth of the +Territorial Force was such a great tower of strength.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>Any profits which may accrue from this pamphlet +will be given to the London Rifle Brigade Prisoners' +Aid Fund.</p> + +<p><i>October, 1916.</i></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_iii" id="Page_iii"></a><a href="images/x-3.png">[iii]</a></span></p> +<h2>CONTENTS</h2> + + + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Contents"> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='center'><small>PAGE</small></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Part I</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_1">1</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Part II</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Second Battalion</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_30">30</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Third Battalion</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_31">31</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Administrative Centre</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_33">33</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Appendix A</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_35">35</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Appendix B</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_39">39</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Appendix C</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_40">40</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Appendix D</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_45">45</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Appendix E</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_46">46</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Appendix F</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_47">47</a></td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1"></a><a href="images/o-1.png">[1]</a></span></p> + +<h2>SHORT HISTORY</h2> + +<h3>OF THE</h3> + +<h2>LONDON RIFLE BRIGADE</h2> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>PART I.</h2> + + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Formation.</b></div> + +<p>The London Rifle Brigade, formerly the 1st +London Volunteer Rifle Corps (City of London +Rifle Volunteer Brigade), and now, officially, +the 5th (City of London) <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'Battalion The'">Battalion, The</ins> +London Regiment, London Rifle Brigade, +familiarly known to its members and the public +generally by the sub-title or the abbreviation +"L.R.B.," was founded July 23rd, 1859, at a +meeting convened by the Lord Mayor. It has +always been intimately associated with the City +of London, its companies being under the +patronage of the various Wards.</p> + +<p>Within a week of its formation the muster of +the Regiment exceeded 1,800; two battalions +were formed and headquarters were taken at +No. 8, Great Winchester Street, where they remained +for 34 years, and subsequently in +Finsbury Pavement.</p> + +<p>In 1893 the Regiment entered its present +headquarters in Bunhill Row. These were de<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2"></a><a href="images/o-2.png">[2]</a></span>signed +by the late Lieut.-Colonel Boyes, erected +entirely from regimental funds, supplemented +by contributions from members of the Brigade, +from various City Companies and other friends +of the Regiment, and constitute the finest building +of its kind in London.</p> + +<p>Since the formation of the Territorial Force +these headquarters have been shared with the +Post Office Rifles.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Honorary +Colonel.</b></div> + +<p>Mr. Alderman Carter was at first appointed +Honorary Colonel, but in 1860 it was suggested +that a military Honorary Colonel would be more +appropriate than a civilian one, and Mr. Carter +(then Lord Mayor) approached H.R.H. the +Duke of Cambridge, who, in response to the +unanimous wish of the Regiment, accepted the +appointment, which he held until his death in +1904. During this period he rarely missed attending +the annual inspection.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Commanding +Officers<ins title="Transcriber's Note: this punctuation missing in original">.</ins></b></div> + +<p>In 1862 a resolution was passed at a meeting +"that Regimental Commanding Officers should +now and always be Officers of professional experience +and ability." This tradition has been +departed from on only two occasions prior to +the war, as shown in the list given on the +following page.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3"></a><a href="images/o-3.png">[3]</a></span></p> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Commanding officers"> +<tr><td align='center'><span class="smcap">Name.</span></td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">From.</span></td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">To.</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>G. M. Hicks (late 41st Regiment)</td><td align='left'>30/12/59</td><td align='left'>January, 1862.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>G. Warde (late 51st Regiment)</td><td align='left'>February, 1862</td><td align='left'>Early, 1876.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Sir A. D. Hayter, Bt. (late Grenadier Guards)</td><td align='left'>Early, 1876</td><td align='left'>1881.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>W. H. Haywood (Ex London Rifle Brigade)</td><td align='left'>1881</td><td align='left'>1882.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lord Edward Pelham-Clinton (late Rifle Brigade) </td><td align='left'>June, 1882</td><td align='left'>1890.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>H. C. Cholmondeley (late Rifle Brigade)</td><td align='left'>1890</td><td align='left'>February, 1901.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Edward Matthey (Ex London Rifle Brigade)</td><td align='left'>February, 1901</td><td align='left'>4/6/01.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lord Bingham (late Rifle Brigade)</td><td align='left'>June, 1901</td><td align='left'>1913.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Earl Cairns (late Rifle Brigade)</td><td align='left'>1913</td><td align='left'>1915.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Norman C. King (Ex London Rifle Brigade)</td><td align='left'>1915</td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'><br /><i>1st Battalion.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Earl Cairns</td><td align='left'>4/8/14</td><td align='left'>16/3/15.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>A. S. Bates (Ex London Rifle Brigade)</td><td align='left'>16/3/15</td><td align='left'>15/8/16.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>R. H. Husey (Ex London Rifle Brigade)</td><td align='left'>15/8/16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'><br /><i>2nd Battalion.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>G. R. Tod (late Seaforth Highlanders)</td><td align='left'>September, 1914</td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'><br /><i>3rd Battalion.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>H. C. Cholmondeley</td><td align='left'>30/11/14</td><td align='left'>1915.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Norman C. King</td><td align='left'>4/6/15</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4"></a><a href="images/o-4.png">[4]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 298px;"> +<img src="images/gs12.jpg" width="298" height="500" alt="The Convent." title="The Convent." /> +<span class="caption"><a href="images/i-02.jpg"><span class="smcap">The Convent.</span></a><br /><i>8th to 16th November, 1914.</i></span> +</div> + + +<div class="sidenote"><b>South +African +War.</b></div> + +<p>Colonel Cholmondeley was appointed to command +the Mounted Infantry Section of the +C.I.V., to which regiment the London Rifle +Brigade contributed 2 officers (Captain C. G. R. +Matthey and Lieutenant the Hon. Schomberg +K. McDonnell) and 78 other ranks.</p> + +<p>When the Volunteer Active Service Companies +were raised, 17 members were accepted +for service with the Royal Fusiliers, and an +additional 76 joined the Imperial Yeomanry +and R.A.M.C.</p> + +<p>The total death roll of the Regiment was +seven.</p> + +<p>Colonel Cholmondeley, Lieutenant E. D. +Johnson (Imperial Yeomanry), and Colour-Sergeant +T. G. Beeton (C.I.V. Infantry) were mentioned +in despatches.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Honours.</b></div> + +<p>Colonel Cholmondeley received the C.B. for +his services in South Africa, and Lieutenant the +Hon. Rupert Guinness was made a C.M.G. for +his work with the Irish Hospital.</p> + +<p>When the Coronation honours were announced +in 1902, Colonel Edward Matthey, +V.D., received the C.B., a fitting award for his +long services to the Volunteer Force. Before +joining the L.R.B. in 1873 as a private he had +already been 13 years in the Victoria Rifles. He +retired in 1901, having served in every rank. +His interest in the Regiment has been, and +still is, without limit.</p> + + +<p>The work he has done for its welfare, while<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5"></a><a href="images/o-5.png">[5]</a></span> +still serving, and since retirement, cannot be +chronicled here, but, when the full history of +the Regiment is written, Colonel Matthey's +name will be found writ large on its pages.</p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/gs13.jpg" width="600" height="368" alt="Ploegsteert." title="Ploegsteert." /> +<span class="caption"><a href="images/i-03.jpg"><span class="smcap">Ploegsteert.</span></a><br /> +<i>The Brewery—The Battalion's First Bath house.</i></span> +</div> + + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Battle +Honours.</b></div> + +<p>In January, 1905, the Regiment was given the +right to bear upon its "Colours and appointments" +the words "South Africa, 1900-1902."</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Shooting.</b></div> + +<p>The London Rifle Brigade has always been +distinguished as a shooting regiment. In the +very first year of its existence its co-operation +was sought in connection with the formation of +the National Rifle Association. In 1907 it had +no less than a dozen International marksmen in +its ranks.</p> + +<p>The earliest notable individual success was +that of Private J. Wyatt, who won the Queen's +Prize in 1864.</p> + +<p>On two more occasions has the Blue Riband +of the shooting world been won by members +of the Regiment—in 1902 by Lieutenant E. D. +Johnson, and in 1909 by Corporal H. G. Burr.</p> + +<p>Regimental teams have been very successful +both at the National Rifle Association and the +London district meetings. At the latter the +"Daily Telegraph" Cup was won two years in +succession (1897 and 1898).</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>School of +Arms.</b></div> + +<p>This was second to none in the Territorial +Force. Its Annual Assault-at-Arms provided +as stirring a spectacle as could be witnessed +anywhere. For many years past the Brigade +achieved notable successes at the Royal Military<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6"></a><a href="images/o-6.png">[6]</a></span> +Tournament and in the competitions of the +Metropolitan Territorial School of Arms Association.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Athletics.</b></div> + +<p>The Battalion always took part in the various +contests between the Territorial Regiments with +considerable success. The most notable of late +were the following:—The "Marathon" Race in +the Territorial Championship of the London +District, 1913, when Captain Husey and the +London Rifle Brigade team won it in the record +time of 1 hr. 33 min. 37 sec.; the distance was 12 +miles, from Ewell to Stamford Bridge. The +national contest at Newport did not produce +such a good time, the London Rifle Brigade +team winning it in 1 hr. 48 min. 14 sec.</p> + +<p>The march to Brighton of 52½ miles for a +team of sixty of all ranks, in full marching +order, was accomplished in 1914 by a London +Rifle Brigade team, under Captain Husey and +Lieutenant Large, in the record time of 14 hrs. +23 min. The war has not given any other +battalion a chance to lower the latter record, +and it will assuredly take "some doing."</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7"></a><a href="images/o-7.png">[7]</a></span></p> +<h2>PART II.</h2> + + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Mobilisation.</b></div> + +<p>The Battalion mobilised on the outbreak of +war. It had actually gone into camp at Eastbourne, +but was brought back to London within +a few hours of its arrival.</p> + +<p>A second and third Battalion were soon +formed. (See pp. 30, 31.)</p> + + +<div class='center'><br /><span class="smcap">First Battalion.</span></div> + +<p>Making stays of varying duration en route at +Wimbledon, Hersham, and Bisley (for three +weeks), the 1st Battalion finally reached Crowborough, +where it remained under canvas until +ordered abroad.</p> + +<p>It embarked on November 4th, 1914. The +following were the officers:—</p> + +<div class='hang1'>Lieut.-Col. W. D. Earl Cairns (Commanding).</div> + +<div class='hang1'>Lieut.-Col. (Hon. Col.) C. G. R. Matthey, +V.D. (Second-in-Command).</div> + +<div class='hang1'>Major.—N. C. King, T.D.</div> + +<div class='hang1'>Captains.—A. S. Bates, M. H. Soames, R. H. +Husey, C. H. F. Thompson, H. F. +MacGeagh, J. R. Somers-Smith, A. L. +Lintott, and Hon. Major C. D. Burnell.</div> + +<div class='hang1'>Lieutenants.—R. E. Otter, J. G. Robinson, G. H. +Morrison, E. L. Large, P. A. Slessor, H. B. +Price, A. G. Kirby, G. H. Cholmeley.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8"></a><a href="images/o-8.png">[8]</a></span></div> + +<div class='hang1'>Second-Lieutenants.—K. Forbes, G. H. G. M. +Cartwright, W. L. Willett, H. L. Johnston, +C. W. Trevelyan, H. G. Vincent, G. E. S. +Fursdon, G. C. Kitchin.</div> + +<div class='hang1'>Adjutant.—Captain A. C. Oppenheim, K.R.R.C.</div> + +<div class='hang1'>Quartermaster.—Lieutenant J. R. S. Petersen.</div> + +<div class='hang1'>Medical Officer.—Major A. D. Ducat, T.D.</div> + +<p>The following short account is written in +constant remembrance of the censorship regulations, +and with a view to giving a faint outline +of its doings to those who were not out with the +1st Battalion in France. It will be an aid to +memory to those who were with it, and are +fortunate in being able to look back on a time +when the 1st Battalion undoubtedly reached its +zenith.</p> + +<p>Never can any Battalion of the Regiment be +better than was the 1st London Rifle Brigade in +1914-15. That all will endeavour to be as good +is quite certain.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>1914. +Nov. 5th.</b></div> + +<p>The Battalion arrived in France. Disembarkation +was a tedious business, and the progress +through the town to the rest camp at the +top of the hill was one of the worst forms of +route march the Battalion had ever experienced. +Frequent checks, but no halts, taught +the true weight of packs and kit; and a perfunctory +inspection on arrival at the camp completed +the exhaustion.</p> + +<p>For the next three weeks the history of the +Battalion was one common to those Territorial<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9"></a><a href="images/o-9.png">[9]</a></span> +units which were sent out as lone Battalions +about that time. It comprised a glorious uncertainty, +which troops coming out earlier and +later in complete divisions cannot have experienced. +For instance, on landing it was learnt, +quite by accident, but on excellent authority, +that officers no longer wore Sam Browne belts or +carried swords. A frantic rush at the last +moment procured web equipment just before +the parade to entrain. Swords and belts were +left at the base.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Nov. 6th.</b></div> + +<p>There was much to learn about entrainment +in France. An advance party had been sent +forward some two hours earlier, and the rest of +the Battalion and the transport were at the +station by 4 p.m. The train was not due to +leave until 9 p.m. French trains and the French +railway system became familiar later on in all +their ramifications, but at first "Hommes 40 +Chevaux (en long) 8" aroused suspicions that +were only too well justified in the next 21½ hours +before the train reached its destination. The +experience was not a unique one.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Nov. 7th.</b></div> + +<p>On arrival at General Headquarters it was +found that the Battalion was not even expected, +and no arrangements had been made for the +night. After a wait of three hours in the train, +the Battalion moved off into some old artillery +barracks, which were destined to become more +familiar later on. The quarters were, at that +time, about as dismal and dirty as can be +imagined.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10"></a><a href="images/o-10.png">[10]</a></span></p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Nov. 8th.</b></div> + +<p>The Battalion marched out some three and a +half miles to a large unfurnished and unfinished +convent, which accommodated the entire +strength.</p> + +<p>There was no water laid on, no light, no +method of heating or of drying clothes, no furniture, +and no possibility of supplementing +rations. The only bright spot was the first introduction +to the rum ration.</p> + +<p>Training, which consisted chiefly of trench +digging and artillery formation, was carried out +daily regardless of the weather.</p> + +<p>The Battalion was apparently considered to +be up to the required standard of efficiency and +hardness, or else the authorities had not the +heart to keep it there longer, for on the 15th +orders were received to march the next day.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Nov. 16th.</b></div> + +<p>The distance was 17½ miles, and the roads +<i>pavée</i> almost the whole way. There was also +some rain. In spite, however, of the absence of +other Battalions to keep them on their mettle, +not a single man fell out of the column.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Nov. 17th.</b></div> + +<p>Except for bruised feet, the march next day, +about 11 miles, was not very trying. Two +nights were spent at this town, where the Artists +and Honourable Artillery Company were also +in billets.</p> + +<p>While on the march it had been possible, for +the first time, to see aeroplanes being shelled, +and, while in these billets, the Battalion learnt<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11"></a><a href="images/o-11.png">[11]</a></span> +what it meant to see the remnants of a Brigade +come out of action.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Nov. 19th.</b></div> + +<p>The Battalion moved one stage nearer to +the firing line in a snow-storm.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Nov. 20th.</b></div> + +<p>Brigadier-General Hunter Weston paid the +Battalion a visit, and addressed the Officers. +He gave a short account of the 11th Infantry +Brigade, which he commanded, and to which the +London Rifle Brigade was attached, and outlined +the scheme of training. Half-companies +were to be attached to Regular Battalions for a +spell in the trenches, the men being scattered +amongst the Regulars. As soon as their worth +had been proved, half-companies were to be +put in the line intact, and later whole companies.</p> + +<p>At dusk on this date half the Battalion proceeded +viâ Ploegsteert to the trenches.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Nov. 21st.</b></div> + +<p>For some unknown reason the Battalion had +not been permitted to adopt the "double company +system" in England, but on this date the +change was made with half the Battalion absent +in the trenches.</p> + +<p>"A" and "D" Companies became No. 1, +under Major King.</p> + +<p>"E" and "O" Companies became No. 2, +under Captain Soames.</p> + +<p>"G" and "P" Companies became No. 3, +under Major Burnell.</p> + +<p>"H" and "Q" Companies became No. 4, +under Captain Bates.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12"></a><a href="images/o-12.png">[12]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 299px;"> +<img src="images/gs22.jpg" width="299" height="500" alt="Ploegsteert." title="Ploegsteert." /> +<span class="caption"><span class="smcap"><a href="images/i-04.jpg">Ploegsteert.</a></span><br /> +<i>Experimenting with a Rifle Grenade.</i><br />From Left to Right:—<span class="smcap">Lieut.-Col. Earl Cairns, C.M.G., Col.-Sgt. Over, +Staff-Sgt. (now Regtl. Sgt.-Maj.) Adams, and Capt. Oppenheim, D.S.O.</span></span> +</div> + + +<p>For the purposes of reference, these companies +will be referred to as A, B, C, and D +respectively, though, owing to the confusion +that might have arisen with the old letters, this +nomenclature was not actually adopted till after +the second battle of Ypres.</p> + +<p>Up to December 18th the trench training of +the London Rifle Brigade continued. Platoons +and whole companies, gradually working more +and more on their own, were attached to the +Regulars. When not actually in the line, the +whole day was invariably taken up with +"fatigues" of all kinds.</p> + +<p>A support line in the wood was remade and +named Bunhill Row.</p> + +<p>It was during this period that the Battalion +gained the nicknames "London fatigue party" +or "Fatigue Fifth," and other affectionate titles +which would not look well in print.</p> + +<p>The Battalion also learnt what it meant to +have the "dripping swung on it."</p> + +<p>The 11th Infantry Brigade was composed of +the following Battalions:—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +1st Somerset Light Infantry.<br /> +1st East Lancashire Regiment.<br /> +1st Hampshire Regiment.<br /> +1st Rifle Brigade.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Dec. 19th.</b></div> + +<p>The object of the attack by the 11th Infantry +Brigade in front of Ploegsteert Wood on this +date was to clear its edges, including German<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13"></a><a href="images/o-13.png">[13]</a></span> +House, and, if possible, establish a line in front +in the part afterwards known as the "birdcage."</p> + + + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 303px;"> +<img src="images/gs23.jpg" width="303" height="500" alt="Ploegsteert Wood." title="Ploegsteert Wood." /> +<span class="caption"><span class="smcap"><a href="images/i-05.jpg">Ploegsteert Wood.</a></span></span> +</div> + + +<p>The Somerset Light Infantry and Rifle Brigade +attacked. The London Rifle Brigade was +in support. The weather could not have been +worse, and the ground was impossible. The +result was that the wood was cleared, and +German House remained in No Man's Land.</p> + +<p>The London Rifle Brigade was not called +upon to continue the attack. This was the +first experience the Battalion had of anything +like heavy artillery fire, and also of the difficulty +of consolidating at night in an unknown bit of +ground. Two half-companies were engaged in +assisting in this work, while the rest of the +Battalion spent a miserable night in the marshes +in the wood.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Dec. 23rd.</b></div> + +<p>Each of the four companies was definitely +attached, as a fifth company, to one of the +Regular Battalions—"A" to the East Lancs, +"B" to the Somerset Light Infantry, "C" to +the Hants, and "D" to the Rifle Brigade.</p> + +<p>All four companies of the London Rifle Brigade +being in the front line on the same night, +it so happened that before the end of 1914 a +Territorial Battalion held the whole of a Regular +Brigade's front with the exception of half a +company on the extreme left.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>1915.</b></div> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Jan. 5th.</b></div> + +<p>The London Rifle Brigade was taken out of +the trenches preparatory to taking over a bit of +line of its own on the right of the 11th Brigade.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14"></a><a href="images/o-14.png">[14]</a></span></p> + +<p>Owing to the incursions of the river Warnave, +this trench was in a very poor state of repair and +badly flooded.</p> + +<p>The dispositions of the Battalion were—one +company in the front trench, one in London +Farm and its environs (this supplied the night-carrying +and working parties), one company, +which was used for general fatigues for the +Brigade, in reserve in Ploegsteert, and one company +resting, washing, and cleaning in billets +at Armentières. Every company spent three +days in each place, and in many ways this was +the most comfortable tour of duty the Battalion +ever had.</p> + +<p>The men made themselves thoroughly at +home in the cottages of the village, while the +three days' rest in Armentières owed much of +its enjoyment to the initiative shown by the 4th +Division in organising both divisional baths and +divisional Follies.</p> + +<p>Headquarters and various details, which included +for the first time a permanent working +and wiring party, were, of course, always "in +action" in Ploegsteert.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Mar. 11th—20th.</b></div> + +<p>This was a period of "standing by" and +various small moves, but eventually, after three +days in the East Lancashires' trenches in front +of the Convent, the Battalion took over the +centre section in the wood on the 21st March.</p> + +<p>Lieut.-Colonel Earl Cairns, C.M.G., owing +to ill-health, left the Battalion on March 16th, +and Major A. S. Bates took over command.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15"></a><a href="images/o-15.png">[15]</a></span></p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Mar. 21st—Apl. +17th.</b></div> + +<p>The section was held with three companies +in the wood, and the fourth in reserve in the +village. The other battalions of the 11th Brigade +went into rest on the 16th, and the London +Rifle Brigade came out last on the next day. +The 11th Infantry Brigade was relieved by a +brigade of the South Midland Division.</p> + +<p>The following extract from a letter shows the +change of conditions between the first and +second sojourn of the Battalion in the wood:—</p> + +<p>"We are back again in the wood, and really +almost glad, though I expect you will hardly +believe it. Our quota of work in the winter no +doubt did a good deal towards the transformation, +and spring is now helping matters. The +<ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'couduroy'">corduroy</ins> no longer stops at the worst parts, +where we used to hold our breaths and make a +dive for it. Hunter Avenue, and right beyond +it to the end of the wood, is now quite a +pleasant walk. Rations and carrying parties, +though they have developed a rather peculiar +gait, can progress at a reasonable pace, and have +no need to wade so long as they keep to the +boards. On either side, however, we still have +a reminder of the nightmare that is past. The +possibility of getting material up has a corresponding +effect on the work in the trenches. +The trench we were in on December 9th, which +we could not conceive ever being anything but +a drain, has now found its proper use. It has a +new C.T. behind, and breastworks pushed out +in front into the hedge, with little bridges across<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16"></a><a href="images/o-16.png">[16]</a></span> +to each; so that altogether everything in the +garden is as near lovely as can be."</p> + +<p>The Bishop of London, the Senior Chaplain +to the Regiment, during his visit to the front, +came to Ploegsteert on April 3rd, and celebrated +Holy Communion for the Battalion on +Easter Sunday. He also consecrated the Battalion's +graveyard in the village.</p> + +<p>His regret at not being allowed to see the +members of the Battalion in the trenches was +shared by all ranks.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>April 17th.</b></div> + +<p>Two brigades had been withdrawn to the +neighbourhood of Steenwerck by this date, and +the 4th Division started its first period of rest +since the Retreat.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>April 24th.</b></div> + +<p>Orders were received on the 22nd for these +brigades to be ready to move at an hour's +notice. The London Rifle Brigade actually +entrained at mid-day on the 24th, and spent +the night in billets outside Poperinghe, moving +off at 5.30 a.m. next morning to the outskirts +of Vlamertinghe. It stopped there till 6 p.m., +when it paraded with the rest of the Brigade +(less the East Lancashires) to go into the +Salient.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Second +Battle of +Ypres.</b></div> + +<p>Since the first gas attack on the evening of +April 22nd, little definite information had been +available as to the situation between the left +of the 28th Division (some 1,000 yards N.N.E. +of Zonnebeke) and along the whole north side +of the Salient down to the canal near<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17"></a><a href="images/o-17.png">[17]</a></span> +Boesinghe. The Canadians had held on with +the grimmest determination in the neighbourhood +of St. Julian, while what became to be +known as Geddes' force held the line from the +canal up to the Canadians. Geddes' force consisted +originally of the supports and reserves +(isolated companies and battalions) from the +south and east sides of the Salient. By the +night of the 25th this force had been supplemented +by the 10th Brigade, the Northumbrian +Territorial Division, the Lahore Division, and +the 13th Brigade from the 5th Division.</p> + + +<div class="sidenote"><b>April 25th.</b></div> + +<p>The 11th Brigade was ordered on this night +to join up the left of the 28th Division with the +right of the 10th Brigade, and so relieve the +Canadians, who were still holding out in the +neighbourhood of St. Julian.</p> + +<p>No information was forthcoming as to the +location of either of these forces, and it would +seem that, instead of one continuous line, there +were many small parties holding out in isolated +groups.</p> + +<p>Two officers from each Battalion had been +sent up in advance (Captain Husey and Lieutenant +Johnston from the London Rifle Brigade), +but no available information could be +collected, except that there was apparently a +gap.</p> + + + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 238px;"> +<img src="images/gs30.jpg" width="238" height="400" alt="Battalion Headquarters." title="Battalion Headquarters." /> +<span class="caption"><a href="images/i-06.jpg"><span class="smcap">Battalion Headquarters.</span></a><br /> +<i>11th May, 1915.</i></span> +</div> + + +<p>That night the Hants joined up with the +28th Division, and prolonged the line nearly to +the junction of the Zonnebeke-St. Julian and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18"></a><a href="images/o-18.png">[18]</a></span> +Ypres-Passchendale roads. There was, however, +still a gap of nearly 1,000 yards between +its left and the rest of the Brigade which had +prolonged the line from the right of the 10th +Brigade and part of the Northumbrian Division.</p> + +<p>The London Rifle Brigade, being in support, +had been instructed to dig itself in 600 yards +south-east of Fortuin.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>April 26th.</b></div> + +<p>The Battalion did not reach this position +until 1.45 a.m., but, thanks to an early morning +mist, it was able to secure fairly good cover by +daylight.</p> + +<p>On this day, and daily for the next seven +days, the Battalion was heavily shelled, and +suffered a high percentage of casualties, chiefly +from enfilade fire.</p> + +<p>Orders were received for a company to move +early in the afternoon and take up a position +that would join up the gap existing between the +Somerset Light Infantry and the Hants. "C" +Company was detailed, but a personal reconnaissance +by the Officer Commanding the Company +(Major Burnell) convinced higher authority that +it was not only impossible to move the men by +day, but that the Hants' left could not be found. +Orders were accordingly received for the whole +Battalion to move at dusk into the gap. Moving +by a somewhat circuitous route, it arrived +at its position, and dug in for the second night +in succession. Owing to the darkness, most, if<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19"></a><a href="images/o-19.png">[19]</a></span> +not all, of the rules as to "artillery formation" +were of necessity transgressed on this occasion.</p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/gs31.jpg" width="600" height="358" alt="Yser Canal." title="Yser Canal." /> +<span class="caption"><a href="images/i-07.jpg"><span class="smcap">Yser Canal.</span></a></span> +</div> + + + +<p>The left of its line joined the Somersets, and +the right an isolated party on the Zonnebeke-St. +Julian road, which was supporting the Hants' +left some 500 yards further forward to the right +front.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>April 28th.</b></div> + +<p>It was not until this night that the Rifle Brigade +finally dug across and joined up with the +Hants, so that there was once more a continuous +line.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>April 29th.</b></div> + +<p>The London Rifle Brigade, having now become +the second line, was moved up on this +night to relieve the 4th East Yorks. The latter, +with the 4th Yorks, were split up among the +Battalions of the 11th Brigade, two companies +of the latter being attached to the London +Rifle Brigade. (The East Lancs had rejoined +the Brigade by this time.)</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>May 2nd.</b></div> + +<p>About 5 p.m., under cover of very heavy shell +fire and gas, the Germans advanced from the +ridge beyond the Haanebeke stream into the +dead ground on the near side of the stream, +where they dug in some 300 yards away, though +on the left they got up much closer under cover +of the houses.</p> + +<p>The London Rifle Brigade casualties were +very heavy, especially on the right, where the +ground was more open.</p> + +<p>Though the Battalion was affected by the gas +for about 10 minutes, there was sufficient wind<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20"></a><a href="images/o-20.png">[20]</a></span> +to dissipate it before any serious damage was +done.</p> + + + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 231px;"> +<img src="images/gs34.jpg" width="231" height="400" alt="Major A. S. Bates." title="Major A. S. Bates." /> +<span class="caption"><span class="smcap"><a href="images/i-08.jpg">Major A. S. Bates.</a></span><br /> +<i>20th May, 1915.</i></span> +</div> + + +<p>There is no doubt that, during their advance +from about 1,000 yards till they got into dead +ground, the Germans suffered fairly heavy +casualties from the rifle fire of the two companies +on the right, and this may possibly have +deterred them from trying to leave the dead +ground. With the assistance of the two companies +of the 4th Yorks and one company of the +East Lancs, which was also attached to the +Battalion, the damage to the trenches was +almost all repaired during the night, and all +the wounded were evacuated.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>May 3rd.</b></div> + +<p>On this night the line was readjusted, and +the whole Brigade retired through the new line +in rear without a single casualty.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>May 4th.</b></div> + +<p>The actual withdrawal commenced at +12.45 a.m., commencing from the right of Battalions. +Wieltje was timed to be reached at +1.45 a.m.</p> + +<p>The casualties over the period April 25th to +May 4th were 16 officers and 392 other ranks.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>May 4th—8th.</b></div> + +<p>These days were spent at various places in +the woods behind Vlamertinghe resting, reorganising, +and dealing with accumulations of +mail.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>May 9th.</b></div> + +<p>The Battalion moved early in the morning to +the grounds of the Chateau at Vlamertinghe. +On this night and the next one it had to dig on<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21"></a><a href="images/o-21.png">[21]</a></span> +the east side of the canal on the north of La +Brique.</p> + + + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/gs35.jpg" width="600" height="363" alt="Officers." title="Officers." /> +<span class="caption"><span class="smcap"><a href="images/i-09.jpg">Officers.</a></span><br /> +<i>20th May, 1915.</i></span> +</div> + + +<div class="sidenote"><b>May 11th.</b></div> + +<p>The Battalion moved up to the canal bank, +and occupied some very insanitary dug-outs, +which had not been previously inhabited by +British troops.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>May 12th.</b></div> + +<p>The London Rifle Brigade took over from the +Dublins a section of the front line, and was on +the extreme right of the 4th Division. A +Cavalry Division was on its immediate right.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>May 13th.</b></div> + +<p>Extract from Sir John French's despatch:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"On the 13th May the heaviest bombardment +yet experienced broke out at 4.30 a.m., and continued +with little intermission throughout the +day. . . . . The 5th London Regiment, despite +very heavy casualties, maintained their position +unfalteringly."</p></div> + +<p>Extract from John Buchan's "History of the +War," Vol. VII.:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Early in the morning of Thursday, May +13th, a day of biting north winds and drenching +rains, a terrific bombardment began. . . . . The +infantry on the left of the cavalry were fiercely +attacked, but contrived to hold their own. . . . . +The London Rifle Brigade had lost most of its +men in the earlier fighting. It began the day +278 strong, and before evening 91 more had +gone. One piece of breastwork was held by +Sergeant Douglas Belcher with four survivors +and two Hussars, whom he had picked up, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22"></a><a href="images/o-22.png">[22]</a></span> +though the trench was blown in, and the Germans +attacked with their infantry, he succeeded +in bluffing the enemy by rapid fire, and holding +the ground until relief came. That gallant +stand, for which the Victoria Cross was +awarded, saved the right of the 4th Division. . . . ."</p></div> + + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 303px;"> +<img src="images/gs38.jpg" width="303" height="500" alt="Lieut. Trevelyan and "A" Company." title="Lieut. Trevelyan and "A" Company." /> +<span class="caption"><span class="smcap"><a href="images/i-10.jpg">Lieut. Trevelyan and "A" Company.</a></span><br /> +<i>20th May, 1915.</i></span> +</div> + + +<p>"A" and part of "B" Companies were in the +front line. "C" Company garrisoned three +fortified supporting points. The rest of "B" +Company and "D" were in support. The reinforcement +of the front line commenced at about +8 a.m. (the shelling on the Battalion's sector had +started at 4 a.m.). The distance between the +front line and the supports was about 900 yards.</p> + +<p>The shelling did not cease till 6 p.m. Later +in the evening the Battalion was withdrawn to +the second line.</p> + +<p>Captain Oppenheim, D.S.O., was wounded on +this date, and Lieutenant H. L. Johnston took +over the duties of Adjutant. He was subsequently +confirmed in the appointment, and +held it till April 7th, 1916, when he took over +command of a company, being succeeded by +Captain F. H. Wallis.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>May 14th.</b></div> + +<p>This evening the Battalion moved into the +trenches in front of La Brique, which it had dug +less than a week before.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>May 15th.</b></div> + +<p>The Battalion moved further forward into the +second line, and two companies of the 6th Bat<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23"></a><a href="images/o-23.png">[23]</a></span>talion +Northumberland Fusiliers were attached +to it.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 301px;"> +<img src="images/gs39.jpg" width="301" height="500" alt="Captain Otter and "B" Company." title="Captain Otter and "B" Company." /> +<span class="caption"><span class="smcap"><a href="images/i-11.jpg">Captain Otter and "B" Company.</a></span><br /> +<i>20th May, 1915.</i></span> +</div> + + +<div class="sidenote"><b>May 16th.</b></div> + +<p>The Battalion was withdrawn to the canal +bank.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>May 19th.</b></div> + +<p>Orders were received that the London Rifle +Brigade was to be withdrawn and sent the next +day to General Headquarters. The Battalion +marched that evening to Vlamertinghe, and was +billeted there.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>May 20th.</b></div> + +<p>The Battalion marched past the Divisional +Commander after he had inspected it, and expressed +his deep appreciation of all it had done +since April 25th. It boarded the motor-buses, +and proceeded to General Headquarters.</p> + +<p>The London Rifle Brigade thus left the 4th +Division after six months.</p> + +<p>The Brigade, Divisional, and Corps Commanders +had all personally thanked the Battalion +for the work it had done, and congratulated +it on its behaviour under the most trying circumstances. +But perhaps even more valued +were the farewell letters from the Battalions of +the 11th Brigade, showing, as they did, that they +really felt the London Rifle Brigade to have +become part of their Regular Brigade.</p> + +<p>The London Rifle Brigade arrived at +Tatinghem, and enjoyed ten days' complete +rest during perfect weather.</p> + +<p>The Rangers and Kensingtons had also been +withdrawn from the line.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24"></a><a href="images/o-24.png">[24]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 357px;"> +<img src="images/gs42.jpg" width="357" height="600" alt="Sec.-Lieut. F. D. Charles and "C" Company." title="Sec.-Lieut. F. D. Charles and "C" Company." /> +<span class="caption"><span class="smcap"><a href="images/i-12.jpg">Sec.-Lieut. F. D. Charles and "C" Company.</a></span><br /> +<i>20th May, 1915.</i></span> +</div> + + +<div class="sidenote"><b>June 1st.</b></div> + +<p>These three Battalions were amalgamated +for work on lines of communications. This +entailed the handing over of all the active service +equipment, and also all transport. The +latter was a bitter blow, as the work of the +transport, personnel, and animals had been +beyond all praise. It is worth noting that in +spite of the very heavy work of the previous +four weeks the transport had actually accomplished +the thirty-mile trek from the Salient in +under 20 hours.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Lines of +Communication.</b></div> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>June 1st—Oct. +1st.</b></div> + +<p>This period calls for no detailed treatment. +Headquarters, and the balance of the men not +employed at the different railheads, remained at +St. Omer, first in the artillery barracks, and +from July 1st under canvas.</p> + +<p>The numbers at the various railheads altered +very considerably from time to time, e.g., on +June 6th 210 other ranks were scattered over +fifteen stations, and on September 24th there +were 374 other ranks at twenty-one different +stations.</p> + +<p>In addition to these details, the Battalion was +called upon to furnish escorts and large parties +for detraining work.</p> + +<p>During the battle of Loos the Kensingtons +and London Rifle Brigade between them furnished +all the escorts for German prisoners, +every available man, including grooms and +officers' servants, being used.</p> + +<p>The variety of the work on lines of communication +provided scope for every type of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25"></a><a href="images/o-25.png">[25]</a></span> +individual—clerks to R.T.O.'s, telephone operators, +guards, shell fuse setters, navvies on coal +wharves, caretakers of a horse rest camp, hospital +orderlies—while from time to time at small +stations non-commissioned officers were left in +complete charge.</p> + + + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 357px;"> +<img src="images/gs43.jpg" width="357" height="600" alt="Sec.-Lieut. Wallis and "D" Company." title="Sec.-Lieut. Wallis and "D" Company." /> +<span class="caption"><span class="smcap"><a href="images/i-13.jpg">Sec.-Lieut. Wallis and "D" Company.</a></span><br /> +<i>20th May, 1915.</i></span> +</div> + + + +<p>From September 2nd to 30th the following +four officers were lent to the Gas Brigade, and +took part in the battle of Loos:—Captain R. E. +Otter, Lieutenant F. H. Wallis, and Sec.-Lieutenants +A. B. White and F. D. Charles.</p> + +<p>On August 9th the composite Battalion was +broken up, and each unit regained its individuality. +This did not make any practical +difference until October 2nd, when the London +Rifle Brigade was transferred from the lines of +communication to General Headquarters troops, +and marched to Blendecques, the band of the +Artists being kindly lent by their Commanding +Officer to play it out.</p> + +<p>While the Battalion was under canvas at +General Headquarters, the officers messed in the +Salle d'Honneur of the 8th Regiment of Infantry. +On leaving, a present of a glass inkpot, with the +regimental crest of the London Rifle Brigade, +was sent to this French regiment as a small +memento of the occasion. A most cordial and +charming reply was received by Colonel Bates +from Colonel Roubert, in which the latter looked +forward to seeing the London Rifle Brigade +once again in his barracks after victory had +crowned the Allies' arms.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26"></a><a href="images/o-26.png">[26]</a></span></p> +<div class="figleft" style="width: 303px;"> +<img src="images/gs46.jpg" width="303" height="500" alt="Sec.-Lieut. Barker and M.G. Team." title="Sec.-Lieut. Barker and M.G. Team." /> +<span class="caption"><span class="smcap"><a href="images/i-14.jpg">Sec.-Lieut. Barker and M.G. Team.</a></span><br /> +<i>20th May, 1915.</i></span> +</div> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Oct. 2nd—25th.</b></div> + +<p>The stay at Blendecques was intended to be a +period of training before being sent back to the +front. The actual period was 23 days, but, as it +took more than a week to collect all the details +from the various railheads, little more than a +fortnight's full training was possible.</p> + +<p>The reluctance of the authorities at these railheads +to part with their London Rifle Brigade +detachments, even after their reliefs had +arrived, although complimentary, was not a little +annoying, but the grateful letters received by +the Commanding Officer in some measure compensated +for the delay.</p> + +<p>These three weeks were a period of remobilisation. +Most of the non-commissioned +officers who had survived Ypres had taken commissions. +All the specialists had to be retrained. +The transport and detailed equipment +had to be indented for. The essentials were received +by degrees, and actually completed a few +days before the Battalion moved.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Oct. 25th.</b></div> + +<p>The London Rifle Brigade moved by motor-bus +in pouring rain to join the 3rd Division, +which was resting east of Cassel. It relieved +the Honourable Artillery Company in the 8th +Infantry Brigade. The latter Battalion returned +in the same buses. The transport had marched +on the previous day.</p> + +<p>Incessant rain and frequent inspections, combined +with training on the lines laid down by +the new Division, employed the time up to +November 23rd.</p> + + + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 301px;"> +<img src="images/gs47.jpg" width="301" height="500" alt="The Barracks, General Headquarters." title="The Barracks, General Headquarters." /> +<span class="caption"><span class="smcap"><a href="images/i-15.jpg">The Barracks, General Headquarters.</a></span></span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27"></a><a href="images/o-27.png">[27]</a></span></p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Nov. 23rd.</b></div> + +<p>The Battalion marched to Poperinghe. For +the first time it now had a bombing section of +2 officers and 70 other ranks; a sniping detachment +was also organised.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Nov. 29th.</b></div> + +<p>The Battalion relieved the Liverpool Scottish +in the front line. The trenches were in a +desperate state, with very few traverses, no +complete communication trenches or second +line, and mud quite indescribable. They were +also overlooked, and enfiladed by the enemy. +The tour was normally seven days, with two +companies in the front line and two in reserve +near Battalion Headquarters.</p> + +<p>Work was rendered very difficult owing to the +water-logged nature of the ground.</p> + +<p>Ration parties took as much as seven hours to +accomplish one round journey.</p> + +<p>On the whole, the Battalion was amazingly +fortunate while in these trenches. It suffered +casualties from occasional shelling and sniping, +but on certainly two occasions the enemy +bombarded the trenches and blew in fifty yards +of parapet without inflicting a single casualty.</p> + +<p>The march to and from the trenches was an +exceedingly trying one. Only once was part of +the Battalion able to use motor-buses, but, after +the first tour, use was made of the "Ypres Express," +to whose Commanding Officer the London +Rifle Brigade will ever remain indebted.</p> + +<p>The Battalion was in the trenches during the +abortive gas attack on December 19th, but was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28"></a><a href="images/o-28.png">[28]</a></span> +not affected by the gas, which passed just +behind it.</p> + + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 347px;"> +<img src="images/gs50.jpg" width="347" height="500" alt="Poperinghe, 1915." title="Poperinghe, 1915." /> +<span class="caption"><span class='smcap'><a href="images/i-16.jpg"><ins title="Transcriber's Note: This word originally in all capital letters">Poperinghe</ins>, 1915.</a></span></span> +</div> + +<p>Christmas Day was spent in Poperinghe.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>1916.</b></div> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Jan. 4th.</b></div> + +<p>On leaving the trenches on this date the Battalion +was kept in Brigade reserve. Apart from +heavy night-working parties, the week was not +too uncomfortable, though baths were impossible.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Jan. 18th.</b></div> + +<p>The London Rifle Brigade returned to rest +under canvas instead of to billets.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Feb. <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads '1—8.'">1st—8th.</ins></b></div> + +<p>Owing to the relief of the 3rd Division this +period was one of variety. The Battalion +marched from trenches to rest, and back into +reserve. It was attached to three different Brigades, +and for a time was Divisional Troops. +Eventually, on the 8th, orders were received to +entrain the next day. The various outlying details +were collected before midnight.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Feb. 9th.</b></div> + +<p>The Battalion entrained for the South.</p> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>Gommecourt.</b></div> + +<div class="sidenote"><b>July 1st.</b></div> + +<p>This fighting is too recent for any details, +however bare, to be given.</p> + +<p>Previous to this date the Battalion, now part +of as fine a Territorial Division as France had +ever seen, took its ordinary tour of training +and trenches. It was, of course, known that +the Division was going "over the top" at the +beginning of the offensive, and all training was +carried out with this great end in view.</p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/gs51.jpg" width="600" height="358" alt="Voormezeele Church." title="Voormezeele Church." /> +<span class="caption"><span class="smcap"><a href="images/i-17.jpg">Voormezeele Church.</a></span> +</span> +</div> + + +<p>The following extract from the account published +in the Press is given here, not because the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29"></a><a href="images/o-29.png">[29]</a></span> +writer of these notes does not feel able to give +his own account, but because he might unwittingly +say more than the Censor would feel able +to pass:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"I am about to give, on first-hand information, +an account of the part which has been +played by certain of our famous London Regiments. +These regiments, which included the +London Rifle Brigade, the Queen Victoria's +Rifles, the Rangers, the Queen's Westminsters, +and London Scottish, had assigned to them certain +objectives near Gommecourt, towards the +northern end of our original line of advance, +where, as is well known, owing to the extraordinary +preparations which the enemy had +made in that direction, we did not fare so well +as we have done, and continue to do, further +south. The London Regiments, which fought +with magnificent gallantry and tenacity, did, in +fact, accomplish their primary objects, but, +owing to circumstances beyond their control, +they subsequently had to retire to a line which +nearly corresponds to that they occupied before +the battle began. . . . ."</p></div> + +<p>For its work on this day the Corps, of which +the Division formed a part, received a special +verbal message of thanks, delivered by one of +Sir Douglas Haig's A.D.C.'s. This was subsequently +confirmed in writing by the Chief of +the General Staff.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30"></a><a href="images/o-30.png">[30]</a></span></p> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/gs54.jpg" width="600" height="366" alt="Trench Battalion Headquarters." title="Trench Battalion Headquarters." /> +<span class="caption"><span class="smcap"><a href="images/i-18.jpg">Trench Battalion Headquarters.</a></span><br /> +<i>November, 1915—February, 1916.</i></span> +</div> + + + + + +<p>Lieut.-Colonel Bates, D.S.O., was given sick +leave in August, and Major R. H. Husey, M.C., +took command. Under his leadership the Battalion +added to its laurels in the fighting during +September.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />SECOND BATTALION.</div> + +<p>At the beginning of September, 1914, permission +was obtained to form a second Battalion. +Recruiting was commenced at Headquarters in +Bunhill Row on the 3rd, and the Battalion was +filled in one day. So great was the rush of recruits +that, had it been possible to obtain leave +to do so, another Battalion could easily have +been formed. Great care was taken, under +these advantageous circumstances, in the selection +of recruits. Those taken, combined with +the draft from the 1st Battalion of men who +were unable at that time to undertake the +foreign service obligation, made up a fine Battalion.</p> + +<p>Of the officers on formation, the following had +formerly served in the Regiment, or were serving, +and transferred from the 1st Battalion under +the home service condition:—</p> + +<div class='hang1'>Lieut.-Colonel G. R. Tod, formerly Adjutant +for five years, 1898-1903.</div> + +<div class='hang1'>Major G. Harvest.</div> +<div><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31"></a><a href="images/o-31.png">[31]</a></span></div> +<div class='hang1'>Quartermaster and Hon. Major J. Guppy.</div> + +<div class='hang1'>Captain C. G. H. Macgill, M.V.O., who +acted as Adjutant until the formation of +the Home Service Provisional Battalion.</div> + +<div class='hang1'>Captain S. Bowers.</div> + +<div class='hang1'>Captain C. R. Bland.</div> + +<div class='hang1'>Captain H. B. Prior.</div> + +<div class='hang1'>Captain C. E. Johnstone.</div> + +<div class='hang1'>Captain C. Furze.</div> + +<div class='hang1'>Lieutenant B. E. Bland.</div> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 350px;"> +<img src="images/gs55.jpg" width="350" height="500" alt="Entrance to Camp, Rest Billets, May, 1916, where the Lord Mayor saw the Battalion on Parade." title="Entrance to Camp, Rest Billets, May, 1916, where the Lord Mayor saw the Battalion on Parade." /> +<span class="caption"><span class='smcap'><a href="images/i-19.jpg">Entrance to Camp, Rest Billets, May, 1916, where the Lord Mayor saw the Battalion on Parade.</a></span></span> +</div> + +<div class='center'><br />THIRD BATTALION.</div> + +<p>The 3rd Battalion was raised on November +30th, 1914. The first Commanding Officer was +Colonel H. C. Cholmondeley, C.B. (see pages 3 +and 4). The Battalion was fortunate in having +the help of several old members of the Regiment +in the commissioned and non-commissioned +ranks. They were invaluable in carrying on to +the new men the traditions and ésprit de corps +of the London Rifle Brigade.</p> + +<p>After some five months in London, the Battalion +proceeded at the end of April by train to +Wimbledon, and on, by route march, to Tadworth, +where it went under canvas. Soon after +its arrival Colonel Cholmondeley was given command +of a 4th Line Brigade, and the command +of the Battalion was taken over by Major +Norman C. King, T.D., who went out to the +front with the 1st Battalion, and had been +invalided home. Lieut.-Colonel King, being the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32"></a><a href="images/o-32.png">[32]</a></span> +officer with the senior permanent rank on the +cadre of the Regiment, now commands it.</p> + +<p>The system of training adopted was that of a +public school; that is to say, the company represented +the house, and the Captain the house +master, who administered the company, but was +not responsible for its training. The instructors +in each subject—e.g., drill, musketry, bombing, +etc.—each had their own staff of assistants, and +every platoon was taken up in turn for its lesson. +This represented the forms of a school. The +system proved very successful, and received +commendation from high authority. It was subsequently +recommended for adoption over the +whole of the Southern Command, but was too +much of a departure from tradition to be taken +over as it stood, though it was recommended in +a modified form.</p> + +<p>As the summer of 1915 passed on, officers +from the 1st Battalion, who had been wounded +in the second battle of Ypres in April-May, were +posted to the 3rd Battalion on recovery. +Thus began the circulation between the 1st and +3rd Battalions which has proved so invaluable in +keeping close touch and sympathy between +those at the front and those at home.</p> + +<p>On November 12th the Battalion moved to +billets in Sutton, and received the greatest kindness +and consideration there. Everything possible +was done for the comfort of the Battalion, +and not the least of the kindnesses received<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33"></a><a href="images/o-33.png">[33]</a></span> +were the services at Christchurch, under the Rev. +Courtney Gale. Nothing could have exceeded +the warmth and vigour of the church parades, +which were much appreciated by all ranks.</p> + +<p>On January 10th, 1916, the Battalion moved +to its present camp.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />ADMINISTRATIVE CENTRE.</div> + +<p>The Headquarters and Depôt or Administrative +Centre are situated at 130, Bunhill Row, +E.C., and are in charge of Captain H. Ferguson, +to whom the Regiment owes a considerable debt +of gratitude for the whole-hearted way he has +thrown himself into the work since he joined. +Having been private secretary to the late Lord +Roberts, he has brought a ripe knowledge and +warm appreciation of the Territorial Force to +bear on the thousand and one details which have +to be arranged from Headquarters. Here it is +that recruits receive their equipment and their +first insight into drill.</p> + +<p>The finances of the Regiment since war +broke out have been ably looked after by Major +C. W. Cornish, V.D., who took up the reins +again after having laid them down in 1908.</p> + +<p>The London Rifle Brigade Mutual Aid +Society centres in Bunhill Row, and a copy of +its scheme is given in Appendix F.</p> + +<p>The Prisoners' Aid Fund, for sending food +and warm clothing to non-commissioned officers<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34"></a><a href="images/o-34.png">[34]</a></span> +and riflemen of the Regiment who are prisoners, +is also controlled from Headquarters. Weekly +parcels are sent by ladies of the Regiment to +any whose relatives are not in a position to send +them all they require.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35"></a><a href="images/o-35.png">[35]</a></span></p> +<h2>APPENDIX A.</h2> + + +<h3>HONOURS AND REWARDS.</h3> + + + +<div class='center'><i>Victoria Cross.</i></div> +<div class='unindent'> +9539 Lance-Sergeant Douglas Walter Belcher (now Sec.-Lieutenant, Queen Victoria's Rifles).<br /></div> + +<div class='center'><br /><i>K.C.V.O.</i></div> +<div class='unindent'>The Bishop of London.<br /></div> + +<div class='center'><br /><i>C.M.G.</i></div> +<div class='unindent'>Lieut.-Colonel W. D. The Earl Cairns.</div> + +<div class='center'><br /><i>D.S.O.</i></div> +<div class='unindent'>Major A. S. Bates.<br /> +Captain A. C. Oppenheim, King's Royal Rifle Corps.<br /></div> + +<div class='center'><br /><i>Military Cross</i> (10).<br /></div> +<div class='unindent'>Captain R. H. Husey.<br /> +Captain J. R. Somers-Smith.<br /> +Captain H. L. Johnston.<br /> +Captain C. W. Trevelyan.<br /> +Captain F. H. Wallis.<br /> +Captain R. Russell.<br /> +Captain F. H. Crews.<br /> +Lieutenant E. R. Williamson (with a Trench Mortar Battery).<br /> +Sec.-Lieutenant A. K. Dodds (attached 181st Company, Royal Engineers).<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36"></a><a href="images/o-36.png">[36]</a></span>Sec.-Lieutenant R. E. Petley.<br /></div> + +<div class='center'><br /><i>D.C.M.</i> (12).</div> +<div class='unindent'>9338 Sergeant (now Captain, Hampshire R., T.F.) W. F. Pothecary.<br /> +6968 Signalling Sergeant E. A. Adams.<br /> +8541 Sergeant R. V. Todd.<br /> +9435 Transport Sergeant A. Gordon (now Sec.-Lieutenant, London Rifle Brigade).<br /> +515 Sergeant W. M. Lilley.<br /> +9996 Sergeant W. A. Roulston (killed).<br /> +9497 Corporal (now Lieutenant, London Rifle Brigade) G. G. Boston.<br /> +75 Lance-Corporal T. H. Stransom (now Sec.-Lieutenant, London Rifle Brigade).<br /> +11003 Lance-Corporal C. Taylor.<br /> +1006 Rifleman J. S. Lindsay (now Sec.-Lieutenant, London Rifle Brigade).<br /> +8896 Rifleman R. S. Clark.<br /> +10839 Rifleman E. L. Kench.<br /></div> + +<div class='center'><br /><i>Military Medal</i> (28).</div> +<div class='unindent'>1867 Regimental Sergeant-Major J. Adams.<br /> +660 Sergeant (now Sec.-Lieutenant, London Rifle Brigade) P. T. Dyer.<br /> +10835 Sergeant F. C. Keele.<br /> +9412 Sergeant (now Sec.-Lieutenant, London Rifle Brigade) E. H. Slade.<br /> +1131 Sergeant W. G. T. Mason.<br /> +776 Corporal R. F. Ebbetts.<br /> +9535 Corporal (now Sec.-Lieutenant, Lincolnshire Regiment) P. Godsmark.<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37"></a><a href="images/o-37.png">[37]</a></span>9921 Lce.-Cpl. (now Sergeant) L. W. Billington.<br /> +9289 Lance-Corporal (now Sec.-Lieutenant, London Rifle Brigade) H. J. F. Crisp.<br /> +1621 Lance-Corporal J. H. Foaden.<br /> +1220 Lance-Corporal (now at Officers' Cadet School) V. L. A. Fowle.<br /> +9899 Lance-Corporal J. O. Haylock (now Sergeant-Dispenser, Northumbrian Field Ambulance).<br /> +9471 Lance-Corporal (now Sec.-Lieutenant, Cheshire Regiment) H. J. C. Rowe.<br /> +9137 Lance-Corporal (now Sec.-Lieutenant, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment) R. H. Stonnill.<br /> +9453 Lance-Corporal (now Corporal) H. Turner.<br /> +762 Lance-Corporal R. E. Parslow.<br /> +787 Sergeant C. W. Bradford (killed).<br /> +1124 Rifleman H. G. Buck.<br /> +1289 Rifleman F. A. Crocker.<br /> +92 Rifleman (now Sec.-Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery) W. E. Dunnett.<br /> +2516 Rifleman H. W. Dunk.<br /> +2822 Rifleman A. F. H. Edington.<br /> +9457 Rifleman (now Sec.-Lieutenant, London Regiment) G. Gordon.<br /> +10535 Rifleman W. Hawthorn.<br /> +161 Rifleman (now Sec.-Lieutenant, London Regiment) E. W. G. Hodgkinson.<br /> +9609 Rifleman (now Sec.-Lieutenant, London Regiment) E. B. Latham.<br /> +9597 Rifleman (now Sec.-Lieutenant, London Regiment) W. E. Lockhart.<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38"></a><a href="images/o-38.png">[38]</a></span>147 Rifleman (Sec.-Lieutenant, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry) A. C. Thomas (killed).<br /></div> + +<div class='center'><br /><i>Meritorious Service Medal</i> (2).</div> +<div class='unindent'>129 Acting-Sergt. D. Mackay.<br /> +9587 Rfn. G. W. Hunter.</div> + +<div class='center'><br /><i>The Montenegrin Decoration of Danilo<ins title="Transcriber's Note: This punctuation a comma in original text">.</ins></i></div> +<div class='unindent'>Lieut.-Col. R. H. Husey, M.C.<br /></div> + +<div class='center'><i>Croix de Guerre</i> (with palm leaves).<br /></div> + +<div class='unindent'>515 Sergeant W. M. Lilley.<br /></div> + + +<p>All above Orders, Decorations, and Medals were +won by officers, non-commissioned officers, and riflemen +while serving with, or wearing the uniform of, +the Regiment.</p> + +<p>The following officers, who served with or in the +ranks of the 1st Battalion, London Rifle Brigade, +have gained the award shown after their names +since being transferred, or commissioned, to other +Regiments<a name="FNanchor_A_1" id="FNanchor_A_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a>:—</p> + + +<div class='hang1'>Sec.-Lieutenant H. H. Linzell, The Border Regiment, Military Cross.</div> +<div class='hang1'>Sec.-Lieutenant D. Blofeld, The London Regiment, Military Cross (killed).</div> +<div class='hang1'>Sec.-Lieutenant S. R. Hogg, Royal Fusiliers, Military Cross.<br /><br /></div> + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTE:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_A_1" id="Footnote_A_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> This list does not claim to be complete. Any additions should be +sent to the Officer in Charge Depôt, where a record will be kept.</p></div> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 382px;"><br /> +<a href="images/gs64-big.jpg"><img src="images/gs64.jpg" width="382" height="600" alt="Map" title="Map" /></a> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39"></a><a href="images/o-39.png">[39]</a></span></p> + +<h2>APPENDIX B.</h2> + + +<p>The following officers and other ranks have been +mentioned in despatches:—</p> + + +<div class='hang1'>Lieut.-Colonel W. D. Earl Cairns.</div> +<div class='hang1'>The Bishop of London.</div> +<div class='hang1'>Lieut.-Colonel A. S. Bates (3).</div> +<div class='hang1'>Major A. D. Ducat, M.B., T.D., R.A.M.C. (T.F.).</div> +<div class='hang1'>Captain A. C. Oppenheim, King's Royal Rifle Corps (2).</div> +<div class='hang1'>Captain R. H. Husey.</div> +<div class='hang1'>Captain J. R. Somers-Smith.</div> +<div class='hang1'>Captain C. W. Trevelyan.</div> +<div class='hang1'>Lieutenant R. Russell.</div> +<div class='hang1'>Sec.-Lieutenant W. L. Willett.</div> +<div class='hang1'>Sec.-Lieutenant A. K. Dodds.</div> +<div class='hang1'>709 Company Sergeant-Major A. J. R. Macveagh.</div> +<div class='hang1'>8488 Company Sergeant-Major (now Sec.-Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery) B. K. Manbey.</div> +<div class='hang1'>8929 Corporal (now Sec.-Lieutenant, King's Royal Rifle Corps) T. H. Jenkin.</div> +<div class='hang1'>9391 Rifleman R. E. Peck.</div> + + + +<p>The following officer who served in the ranks of the +1st Battalion, London Rifle Brigade, has also been +mentioned in despatches since being commissioned to +another regiment<a name="FNanchor_B_2" id="FNanchor_B_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_B_2" class="fnanchor">[B]</a>:—</p> + +<div class='hang1'> +Temporary Sec.-Lieutenant L. E. Schultz, Wiltshire Regiment (killed).<br /><br /> +</div> + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTE:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_B_2" id="Footnote_B_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_B_2"><span class="label">[B]</span></a> This list does not claim to be complete. Any additions should be +sent to the Officer in Charge Depôt, where a record will be kept.</p></div></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40"></a><a href="images/o-40.png">[40]</a></span></p> +<h2>APPENDIX C.</h2> + + +<p>Alphabetical list, by ranks—the latter as on +15/8/16—of London Rifle Brigade officers with service +in France up to that date, <span class="u">excluding those now +serving whose names have not been passed by the +Censor for publication</span>:—</p> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="List by Rank"> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='4'><i>Lieutenant-Colonels.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'><small><span class="smcap">Name.</span></small></td><td align='left'><small>Joined B.E.F<br />as an Officer.</small> </td><td align='left'><small>Left B.E.F.</small> </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bates, A. S.</td><td align='left'>5/11/14</td><td align='left'>15/8/16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cairns, W. D., Earl</td><td align='left'>5/11/14</td><td align='left'>9/4/15</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>King, N. C.</td><td align='left'>5/11/14</td><td align='left'>6/1/15</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Matthey, C. G. R.</td><td align='left'>5/11/14</td><td align='left'>12/1/15</td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='4'><br /><i>Majors.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Burnell, C. D.</td><td align='left'>5/11/14</td><td align='left'>7/5/15</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>MacGeagh, H. D. F.</td><td align='left'>5/11/14</td><td align='left'>13/1/15</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>31/8/15</td><td align='left'>3/12/15</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Soames, M. H.</td><td align='left'>5/11/14</td><td align='left'>17/7/15</td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='4'><br /><i>Captains.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Alcock, J. E.</td><td align='left'>20/12/14</td><td align='left'>21/2/15</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bland, B. E.</td><td align='left'>23/12/14</td><td align='left'>9/3/15</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Charles, F. D.</td><td align='left'>8/5/15</td><td align='left'>16/9/16</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Charles, R. D. S.</td><td align='left'>19/2/15</td><td align='left'>7/5/15</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cholmeley, G. H.</td><td align='left'>5/11/14</td><td align='left'>21/2/15</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41"></a><a href="images/o-41.png">[41]</a></span>18/7/15</td><td align='left'>-/7/1</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>de Cologan, A. T. B.</td><td align='left'>18/7/15</td><td align='left'>1/7/16</td><td align='left'>Prisoner</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Harvey, B. S.</td><td align='left'>20/12/14</td><td align='left'>3/5/15</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>5/8/15</td><td align='left'>1/7/16</td><td align='left'>Killed</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Johnston, H. L.</td><td align='left'>5/11/14</td><td align='left'>23/6/16</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Kirby, A. G.</td><td align='left'>5/11/14</td><td align='left'>20/12/14</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Kitching, G. C.</td><td align='left'>5/11/14</td><td align='left'>17/2/15</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Large, E. L.</td><td align='left'>5/11/14</td><td align='left'>21/5/15</td><td align='left'>Died of wounds</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lintott, A. L.</td><td align='left'>5/11/14</td><td align='left'>20/1/15</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>21/5/15</td><td align='left'>19/11/15</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Morrison, G. H.</td><td align='left'>5/11/14</td><td align='left'>31/3/15</td><td align='left'>Killed</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Nobbs, H. G.</td><td align='left'>8/8/16</td><td align='left'>9/9/16</td><td align='left'>Wounded & Prisoner</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>Now exchanged</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Robinson, J. G.</td><td align='left'>5/11/14</td><td align='left'>25/1/16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Russell, R.</td><td align='left'>11/2/15</td><td align='left'>21/4/16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Somers-Smith, J. R.</td><td align='left'>5/11/14</td><td align='left'>3/6/15</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>24/10/15</td><td align='left'>1/7/16</td><td align='left'>Killed</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>White, A. B.</td><td align='left'>19/2/15</td><td align='left'>7/5/15</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>18/7/15</td><td align='left'>20/11/15</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wills, E. C.</td><td align='left'>8/5/15</td><td align='left'>13/10/16</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='4'><br /><i>Lieutenants.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bantoft, E. S.</td><td align='left'>5/7/16</td><td align='left'>11/9/16</td><td align='left'>Died of wounds</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Beard, H. C.</td><td align='left'>18/3/15</td><td align='left'>3/5/15</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Boston, G. G.</td><td align='left'>8/5/15</td><td align='left'>27/7/16</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bromiley, B.</td><td align='left'>24/12/15</td><td align='left'>5/7/16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cartwright, G. H. G. M.</td><td align='left'>5/11/14</td><td align='left'>11/5/15</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42"></a><a href="images/o-42.png">[42]</a></span>Clode-Baker, G. E.</td><td align='left'>24/12/15</td><td align='left'>1/7/16</td><td align='left'>Killed</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Dodds, A. K.</td><td align='left'>28/2/15</td><td align='left'>11/10/15</td><td align='left'>Gassed</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Flindt, R. E. H.</td><td align='left'>11/2/15</td><td align='left'>7/5/15</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Fursdon, G. E. S.</td><td align='left'>5/11/14</td><td align='left'>2/5/15</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>18/7/15</td><td align='left'>4/9/15</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Long, C. W.</td><td align='left'>27/5/16</td><td align='left'>27/7/16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Maynard, M. J.</td><td align='left'>8/5/15</td><td align='left'>-/10/16</td><td align='left'>Missing</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Oldfield, P. B. B.</td><td align='left'>1/5/15</td><td align='left'>27/7/16</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Petersen, J. R. S.</td><td align='left'>5/11/14</td><td align='left'>5/5/16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Pocock, B. L. E.</td><td align='left'>24/12/15</td><td align='left'>2/7/16</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Price, H. B.</td><td align='left'>5/11/14</td><td align='left'>3/5/15</td><td align='left'>Killed</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Sedgwick, A. E.</td><td align='left'>26/2/15</td><td align='left'>6/5/15</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>12/8/16</td><td align='left'>10/9/16</td><td align='left'>Killed</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Slessor, P.</td><td align='left'>5/11/14</td><td align='left'>22/12/14</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Titley, P.</td><td align='left'>19/1/16</td><td align='left'>26/6/16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Vincent, H. G.</td><td align='left'>5/11/14</td><td align='left'>3/5/15</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Williamson, E. R.</td><td align='left'>24/12/15</td><td align='left'>10/9/16</td><td align='left'>Wounded & missing, believed killed</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wimble, A. S.</td><td align='left'>29/4/15</td><td align='left'>7/5/15</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='4'><br /><i>Second-Lieutenants.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Appleton, E. R.</td><td align='left'>18/7/15</td><td align='left'>20/12/15</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Aste, P. J.</td><td align='left'>18/7/15</td><td align='left'>4/2/16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Baldwin, N. E.</td><td align='left'>3/8/16</td><td align='left'>-/10/16</td><td align='left'>Wounded & missing</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Balkwill, C. V.</td><td align='left'>27/5/16</td><td align='left'>1/7/16</td><td align='left'>Killed</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Balls, F. A.</td><td align='left'>27/5/16</td><td align='left'>11/7/16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Barker, H. C.</td><td align='left'>29/4/15</td><td align='left'>22/1/16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='left'>28/3/16</td><td align='left'>24/4/16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Benns, A. L.</td><td align='left'>5/3/16</td><td align='left'>1/7/16</td><td align='left'>Killed</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43"></a><a href="images/o-43.png">[43]</a></span>Betts, A. W. T.</td><td align='left'>2/5/15</td><td align='left'>17/5/15</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Brodie, C. G.</td><td align='left'>18/7/15</td><td align='left'>15/9/15</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Camden, H. M.</td><td align='left'>11/1/16</td><td align='left'>9/2/16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Carrier, J. R.</td><td align='left'>8/5/16</td><td align='left'>8/10/16</td><td align='left'>Killed</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Collis, L. W.</td><td align='left'>2/8/16</td><td align='left'>20/9/16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cotter, G. H.</td><td align='left'>11/2/15</td><td align='left'>12/4/15</td><td align='left'>Killed</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Crisp, H. J. F.</td><td align='left'>27/5/16</td><td align='left'>14/9/16</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Doust, C. B.</td><td align='left'>14/3/16</td><td align='left'>1/7/16</td><td align='left'>Killed</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Dyer, P. T.</td><td align='left'>19/7/16</td><td align='left'>29/9/16</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Feast, A. C.</td><td align='left'>8/5/15</td><td align='left'>17/5/15</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Forbes, K.</td><td align='left'>5/11/14</td><td align='left'>10/2/15</td><td align='left'>Killed</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Gardiner, W. E. M.</td><td align='left'>8/5/16</td><td align='left'>19/7/16</td><td align='left'>Killed</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Gooding, H. R. W.</td><td align='left'>19/4/15</td><td align='left'>13/5/15</td><td align='left'>Killed</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hill, R. L.</td><td align='left'>13/8/15</td><td align='left'>6/6/16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hogg, S. R.</td><td align='left'>2/5/15</td><td align='left'>23/1/16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Howe, G. H.</td><td align='left'>27/5/16</td><td align='left'>19/8/16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hewitt, F. E.</td><td align='left'>11/1/16</td><td align='left'>20/5/16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Keddie, G. D. F.</td><td align='left'>1/5/15</td><td align='left'>7/6/15</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lindsay, J. S.</td><td align='left'>19/7/16</td><td align='left'>30/9/16</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lines, S. M.</td><td align='left'>8/5/15</td><td align='left'>13/5/15</td><td align='left'>Killed</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lintott, R.</td><td align='left'>29/4/15</td><td align='left'>3/5/15</td><td align='left'>Killed</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lydall, R. F.</td><td align='left'>9/6/16</td><td align='left'>1/7/16</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Moore, E. G.</td><td align='left'>19/7/16</td><td align='left'>17/9/16</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Petley, R. E.</td><td align='left'>27/5/16</td><td align='left'>1/7/16</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Pocock, B. E.</td><td align='left'>29/4/15</td><td align='left'>13/5/15</td><td align='left'>Missing, believed killed</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Pogose, I. R.</td><td align='left'>27/7/15</td><td align='left'>2/7/16</td><td align='left'>Died of wounds</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Pool, E. E.</td><td align='left'>11/1/16</td><td align='left'>9/5/16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Prior, T. A.</td><td align='left'>5/3/16</td><td align='left'>19/5/16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Radford, P. D.</td><td align='left'>19/7/16</td><td align='left'>21/9/16</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44"></a><a href="images/o-44.png">[44]</a></span>Rose, E. W.</td><td align='left'>22/7/15</td><td align='left'>1/7/16</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Rose, O. H.</td><td align='left'>27/5/16</td><td align='left'>18/6/16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Sawbridge, B. F.</td><td align='left'>8/5/16</td><td align='left'>1/7/16</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Sell, C. H.</td><td align='left'>19/1/16</td><td align='left'>-/9/16</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Sharman, A. P.</td><td align='left'>19/7/16</td><td align='left'>11/9/16</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Smith, H.</td><td align='left'>19/1/16</td><td align='left'>1/7/16</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Stransom, J. H.</td><td align='left'>29/4/15</td><td align='left'>30/4/15</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Ticehurst, G. H.</td><td align='left'>4/6/16</td><td align='left'>26/9/16</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Thomas, E. G.</td><td align='left'>27/5/16</td><td align='left'>5/7/16</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Warner, A.</td><td align='left'>27/5/16</td><td align='left'>1/7/16</td><td align='left'>Killed</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wheatley, F. M.</td><td align='left'>11/1/16</td><td align='left'>14/2/16</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Whitehead, L. E.</td><td align='left'>19/4/15</td><td align='left'>2/5/15</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Willett, W. L.</td><td align='left'>5/11/14</td><td align='left'>13/12/14</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wray, M.</td><td align='left'>8/5/15</td><td align='left'>4/6/15</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45"></a><a href="images/o-45.png">[45]</a></span></p> +<h2>APPENDIX D.</h2> + + +<p>List of attached officers who have served with the +1st Battalion, London Rifle Brigade, in France, +<span class="u">excluding those now with it whose names have not +been passed by the Censor for publication</span>:—</p> + + +<div class='center'><i>Adjutant on Mobilisation.</i></div> + +<div class="hang1">Capt. A. C. Oppenheim, King's Royal Rifle Corps, +wounded 13/5/15.</div> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Attached Officers"> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='4'><br /><i>Medical Officers.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'><span class="smcap"><small>Name & Regiment.</small></span></td><td align='center'><small>Joined Battn.</small> </td><td align='center'><small>Left Battn.</small></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Maj. A. D. Ducat, M.D., T.D. </td><td align='left'>5/11/14</td><td align='left'>27/2/15</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Capt. L. Crombie</td><td align='left'>12/5/16</td><td align='left'>-/8/16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Capt. J. M. Moyes</td><td align='left'>6/5/15</td><td align='left'>31/1/16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lieut. Edmunds</td><td align='left'>27/2/15</td><td align='left'>28/4/15</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lt. D. T. C. Frew</td><td align='left'>3/2/16</td><td align='left'>12/5/16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lt. J. D. Marshall</td><td align='left'>31/1/16</td><td align='left'>3/2/16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='4'><br /><i>Second-Lieutenants.</i><a name="FNanchor_C_3" id="FNanchor_C_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_C_3" class="fnanchor">[C]</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cole, C. H.</td><td align='left'>14/7/16</td><td align='left'>4/10/16</td><td align='left'>Killed</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hughes, C. R.</td><td align='left'>14/7/16</td><td align='left'>17/9/16</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Matthews, H. L. L.</td><td align='left'>9/7/16</td><td align='left'>9/9/16</td><td align='left'>Killed</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Newling, A. J.</td><td align='left'>14/7/16</td><td align='left'>7/10/16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Sanderson, G. S.</td><td align='left'>14/7/16</td><td align='left'>21/7/16</td><td align='left'>Killed</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Unwin, R. W.</td><td align='left'>14/7/16</td><td align='left'>-/10/16</td><td align='left'>Killed</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wilkins, J. W.</td><td align='left'>14/7/16</td><td align='left'>-/9/16</td><td align='left'>Wounded</td></tr> +</table></div> +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTE:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_C_3" id="Footnote_C_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_C_3"><span class="label">[C]</span></a> All 11th London.</p></div> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>APPENDIX E.</h2><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46"></a><a href="images/o-46.png">[46]</a></span></p> + + +<h3><i>Commissions.</i></h3> + + +<p>Since the 1st Battalion landed in France, 535 of its +non-commissioned officers and men have received +commissions.</p> + +<p>The majority of these were sent to the Cadet +School at General Headquarters or to England, while +the balance, just over 200, obtained their commissions +when at home sick or recovering from wounds. Out +of this number 65 (21 of "A," 20 of "B," 15 of "C," +and 9 of "D" Companies) have been given commissions +in the Regiment, and 30 of these received them +direct in the field in the 1st Battalion.</p> + +<p>For a Regiment, whose 1st Battalion was fighting, +the total given below is a proud achievement. It was +always a wrench to part with candidates, but the +figures prove that the strictures, often heard, that +Commanding Officers refused to part with their best +men were unfounded in the case of the London Rifle +Brigade.</p> + +<p>A few commissions were granted before the 1st Battalion +went abroad, but no details are, at present, +available.</p> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Number of Commissions"> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='center'><small>Commissioned or transferred to O.T.C's<br />and Officer Cadet Battalions.</small></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>1st Battalion</td><td align='center'>535</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>2nd Battalion</td><td align='center'>122</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>3rd Battalion</td><td align='center'> 51</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='center'>——</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Total</td><td align='center'>708</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='center'>——</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47"></a><a href="images/o-47.png">[47]</a></span></p> +<h2>APPENDIX F.</h2> + +<h3>THE LONDON RIFLE BRIGADE MUTUAL +AID FUND.</h3> + + +<div class='center'><i>Trustees.</i></div> + + +<div class='hang1'>Lieut.-Colonel Earl Waldegrave, P.C., V.D.</div> +<div class='hang1'>Lieut.-Colonel Earl Cairns, C.M.G.</div> +<div class='hang1'>The Bishop of London, P.C., K.C.V.O.</div> + + + +<div class='center'><i>Committee.</i></div> + +<div class='hang1'>Major C. W. Cornish, V.D., nominated by the Trustees.</div> +<div class='hang1'>W. J. M. Burton, Esq. (late London Rifle Brigade), nominated by the Trustees.</div> +<div class='hang1'>Newton Dunn, Esq. (late London Rifle Brigade), nominated by 1st Battalion.</div> +<div class='hang1'>Major C. R. Bland, nominated by 2nd Battalion.</div> +<div class='hang1'>Company Quartermaster-Sergeant F. H. Anderson, nominated by 3rd Battalion.</div> + + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>Under the above title a fund has been inaugurated +with the object of helping officers, non-commissioned +officers and men of the Regiment who may be in need +of assistance owing to injuries or incapacity due to +the war, or to aid their dependants.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48"></a><a href="images/o-48.png">[48]</a></span></p> + +<p>The Fund is administered by a Committee of +five members, two of whom have been nominated by +the Trustees, and are old members of the Regiment, +and one member for each of the three Battalions, to +be nominated by the Officers Commanding.</p> + +<p>Support will be gladly received from friends and +members of the Regiment, and donations may be sent +to Captain H. S. Ferguson at Headquarters, 130, Bunhill +Row, who has kindly consented to act as honorary +secretary and treasurer to the Fund.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_iv" id="Page_iv"></a><a href="images/o-49.png">[iv]</a></span></p> + +<h2>ADDITIONS.</h2> + +<div class='center'>—————</div> + +<div class='tnote'>[Transcriber's Note: These additions have been made to the text.]</div> + +<div class='unindent'><i>Add to bottom of page 37</i>, + +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">"MERITORIOUS SERVICE MEDAL (2).</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 8em;">No. 129 Acting-Sergt. <span class="smcap">D. Mackay.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 8em;">No. 9587 Rfn. <span class="smcap">G. W. 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